#maybe I'ma write amusement park (date) fan fiction some time later

[everything-chlorine-grown-roses]

Because I can’t hold my beans if I don’t let off some steam. Time to note down thoughts about the new chapter. For those who haven’t read it yet, I’m putting it all under a read more so you don’t get spoiled.

Here we go.

First of all, why is this chapter 41. This is just. The Halloween special should not be counting, should it? It’s a non-canon AU chapter. It shouldn’t really be part of the ‘main’ canon, should it? That just bugged me.

The first time I looked at the cover image I went “oh god no” because it looked to me like Luna had a crush on the new dude. Thank god that’s just... coincidence. 

Luna calls Azusa a fuckboi. Why.

Ruruka. Oh god Ruruka. May I point out that Oni means Ogre. She’s basically calling Yami an ogre. Yami is Shrek confirmed. And then she calling for her Mother (which should be Okaa-san, not okasan) and... Okosan? Tbh I don’t even know if she’s calling for her father (which would be Otou-san) or just for someone called Oko.

Then the new character, Tom Miura. Azusa is with a last name basis on him I guess? Why did he get an english first name if he’s just called miura anyway? And he apparently owns a gun. I wonder how old that fucker is. 

When they got to the amusement park and Hitomi said she didn’t want to, my intial reaction was that it’d go Shatter-style again, but since we already know her backstory we were spared by that. And then she leaves with Kimmy to comfort her. The HitoKim ship is back in town.

Miura and Azusa walk around the amusement park. They don’t ride anything, they just walk around, and coincidentally on exactly this day the squad had randomly decided to go to this park, just when that idol is having a concert. And Miura apparently didn’t know that, judging from his reaction. Shouldn’t he have known. And subsequently plead to Kimmy to allow him see the concert.

An idol. Oh man. I mean I recently have been on a sort of idol trip myself because I had started playing Love Live, but goddamnit. Kissu is not a fucking name. If anything, it’s a verb meaning to eat, drink or smoke. But it’s much more common to mean Kiss, but that would require it to be written in katakana, which it’s clearly not. 

If you write Kirumi Kissu in katakana it can mean Kill Me Kiss, so there’s that.

I just noticed Miura pays with dollars. In a Japanese amusement park.

I don’t get why having a streak in your hair makes you Chiasa. Like. Chiasa has white hair, hasn’t she? To have lavender hair as her idol persona would require, she’d need a wig. And the wig wouldn’t have that blonde streak in it. Even if Chiasa dyed her hair, the streak wouldn’t maintain its color. Blonde + Lavender doesn’t equal yellow after all. So the whole logic that she’s Chiasa is just bullshit and can not be more than a red herring, except if Chiasa is that goddamn stupid to put her characteristic streak into her wig.

Can I also say that glittery eye contacts sound like shit? I had a friend who had spider web, ace of spades and completely white contacts, and she told me that it actually is a bit harder to see when wearing them. Glitter just sounds so unpleasant on the eye, and there’s no reason to have glitter all over our eyes anyway. Can’t you just have glitter on your outfit? ...wait, why is she not having any glitter on her dress-

Luna’s backstory. I call it bullshit. Nothing about Luna so far would have indicated any interest in art. She has just been the american memequeen. Now for some reason, aside from dead parents like everyone else, she used to be an art prodigy that basically crippled her hand. I thought drawing was Hitomi’s forte. 

And she only uses her brace as an excuse not to go on roller coasters. That’s the only point of keeping it. Man, Luna, nobody would force you to! Your girlfriends love you and would understand if you told them you don’t want to!

Overall Luna’s backstory would have suited Esther just as well. Seriously. How did a suicidal mother, loss of your best skill, possible loss of your whole future career or any chance to kickstart it, and depression turn into a happy, upbeat, meme loving Luna instead of a more quiet, brooding and serious Esther? I mean really.

And in the end they just go on a lot of roller coasters. Even though Luna didn’t want to, which wasn’t even related to her backstory. So either Luna getting the weight of her past of her chest just fixed that (as if that would just change her mind) or she had to wait for the other all alone. I want Esther and Conchita to ride the carousel with her, buy her cotton candy and enter a haunted house attraction. 

Oh, forget about Luna waiting all alone, Ruruka is only ten so she isn’t allowed to ride a roller coaster in the first place. Now do those two just have fun together I wonder... and Shatter probably tags along with them because he wouldn’t be immediately back to normal just because his ex boyfriend’s funeral is over. If Azusa can whine about her parents a year after their demise, Shatter should be allowed to grief his friend’s death.

And, last of all, the idol brainwashing everyone sounds just utterly stupid. But remember, this is in the same universe were Hitomi has plot magic. Oh god, I hope Chiasa or the idol don’t have magic themselves, that would make Hitomi a much more fitting protagonist than Azusa. That’d be terrible.